The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky.

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

Another eyebrow-raising Jupiter drawing was created on Nov. 1, 1880, by French astronomical artist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, recording five large black spots on the planet’s North Temperate ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new cold "super Jupiter" exoplanet, marking the closest of its kind ever found to us. The new planet, named Eps Ind Ab, orbits a star called Epsilon Indi A ...

Jupiter is our solar system's biggest planet by far. It used to be twice as large: Study A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow ...